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JAPAN Abiko City, Japan Fukuroi City, Japan Hamamatsu City, Japan Kameyama City, Japan Kasama City, Japan Kashiwa City, Japan Minokamo City, Japan Nagareyama City, Japan Nagoya City, Japan Obihiro City, Japan Obu City, Japan Owariasahi City, Japan Tahara City, Japan Tajimi City, Japan Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan Yamato City, Japan Abiko City, Japan 1 - Population：133,558 People (2014) Abiko City, Chiba - Number of households： 156,466 Households (2014) Prefecture - Area：43.19 km2 (2014) - Major industries and special products (including agriculture): Major industry: No specific industry Main agricultural products: rice, vegetables in general http://www.city.abiko.chiba.jp/ Vision Abiko City implemented the “Kokoro Mo Shintai Mo Kenko Plan (Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Plan” in 2004; “Shokuiku Suishin Kodo Keikaku (Food Education Promotion Plan) in 2006 based on the Basic Act on Food Education; and “Ha to Koukou no Kenko Zukuri Kihon Keikaku (Basic Plan of Health Promotion of Dental and Oral Hygiene) in 2013. As these plans reach their final year, we will implement a second plan that integrates these three plans. We will maintain our efforts to create a city where people can lead healthy, active lives, based on the new plan starting in fiscal 2015. Overview (1) Overview of the organization: Features of the organization (healthy city executive office, planning committee, promotion council, etc.) Planning and evaluation of construction of healthy city activities (programmes, etc.) These activities are overseen by Abiko City’s Health Promotion Support Division of the Health and Welfare Department. We seek to create a healthy city, using examples of other local governments and municipalities that are leading the efforts. (2) Main activities and overview of the programme: Projects and planning of special activities and activities that received favourable reviews In fiscal 2012, in order to extend the healthy life expectancy of citizens, we formed a “healthy life expectancy extension project team” in the city hall, which is mainly made up of younger staff, and compiled reports. There were proposals for 13 projects made by the project team. Among them, we adopted two projects – “Introducing carotid ultrasounds in specific medical examinations and longevity medical examinations” and “providing subsidies for brain checkups” in fiscal 2013. And this year, we are “creating videos related to dental health, nutrition, and exercise”. In October, we will “begin a matching event between citizens, citizen groups, and businesses”, focusing not only on extension of healthy life expectancy, but also on revitalization of local industries and civic activities. (3) Strengths: Strengths of your health city programme compared with other cities (Please provide self-assessment.) • The establishment of a city ordinance on dental and oral hygiene in 2012 • Addition of carotid ultrasounds to the basic examination category of specific medical examinations and longevity medical examinations in 2013; Subsidies to a portion of the cost of medical check-up for the brain. • Subsidies for influenza vaccinations for infants to begin in October 2014 2 Abiko City, Japan 2 (4) Main results: The results of implementing healthy city projects and programmes, changes that have taken place since the efforts began By joining the Alliance for Healthy Cities, Japan Chapter, we were able to easily obtain information and exchange our views with local governments and municipalities that are leading the efforts. Abiko City Health Promotion Leaders and Healthy Eating Promotion Leaders At AFHC Japan Chapter Meeting, Kitanagoya City, July 2013 History Abiko City joined the Japan Chapter of the Alliance for Healthy Cities in February 2006 and the Alliance for Healthy Cities in September 2008. Interactions with local governments and municipalities, which are leading the efforts, have been helpful in the advancement of our own health programmes. We will maintain our efforts to bolster our various programmes designed to extend their healthy life expectancy. Abiko City wants to be a city where everyone is energetic and healthy. 3 Fukuroi City, Japan 1 - Population：86,927 People (2014) - Number of households： 31,782 Fukuroi City, Households (2014) - Area：108.56 km2 (2014) Shizuoka Prefecture - Major industries, specialty commodities (including agricultural produce) Mr. Hideyuki Harada, Greenhouse melons (Crown melon) Mayor of Fukuroi City http://www.city.fukuroi.shizuoka.jp/ Vision Fukuroi City defines the “Health” as good conditions of mind and body, local communities and society, and town and nature. “A long healthy life by preventing lifestyle-related diseases and nursing care” is the goal of the citizens’ mind and body. Overview (1) Outline of organization: Health Promotion Division of the City consists of adult health, maternal and child health, medical checkups and planning departments. The Healthy City project is carried out according to the Health Promotion Plan. The plan undergoes evaluation by taking into account the changes in performance of project over years, and the comparison with that of country and prefecture. (2) Outline of major activities and programs • Health Challenge!! SMILE Movement Fukuroi City encourages and supports citizens’ voluntary health promotion activities. One example is the “Health Challenge!! SMILE Movement”, designed to establish healthy lifestyle among citizens. With the slogan, “Health Challenge!! SMILE Movement”, the City strives for realizing Healthy City, in which citizens live a comfortable life with a smile, by keeping five letters of SMILE: S (Sports), M(Meal), I (Internal body fat), L (Life) and E (Enjoy), in mind. • Health Mileage system In the Health Mileage System, the health promotion activities such as exercise, diet and walking are converted to points, and collected points are exchanged for various coupons or donated to kindergartens and schools. For children under 15 years old, various measures are taken to establish proper eating habits from early childhood by encouraging them to eat many different vegetables. (3) Advantages of activities Two health promoting members are chosen from every self-governing resident’s association. They are responsible for organizing Health Promotion Class for the members of association. They also participate, together with health nurses, dieticians and local clinics, in the “Local Health Session” to discuss the community health issues and the health promotion measures. (4) Major outcome In order to solve such issues as the lack of doctors and nurses and the hospital operation, Fukuroi City opened a new hospital (Chutoen General Medical Center) by integrating municipal hospitals in neighboring cities. 4 Fukuroi City, Japan 2 The City is now constructing “Comprehensive Health Center”, which will function as a comprehensive health support system, by improving local medical environment in cooperation with the new hospital, supporting health promotion according to life stage and building a monitoring network in collaboration with local communities and business facilities. Newly developed Chutoen Medical Center Health Promotion Classes in Communities History Fukuroi City issued the “Most Healthy and Culturally Rich City in Japan” announcement in November, 1993. The City set the “Most Healthy and Culturally Rich City in Japan” as one of its comprehensive plans, and has strived for the town construction. 5 Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan 1 - Population：810,847 People (2014) Hamamatsu City, - Number of households : 322,755 Households (2014) Shizuoka Prefecture - Area：1558.04 km2 (2014) - Major industries： • Specialty Products: Lake Hamana Eel, Mikkabi Mandarin Oranges, Pione (Grapes), Enshu Blowfish, Motorbikes, Hamamatsu Gyoza http://www.city.hamamatsu.shizuoka.jp/ kenkozoushin/health/kenkou/index.html Vision The health promotion plan, Healthy Hamamatsu 21, a citizen health promotion index, aims to increase healthy life expectancy, raise quality of life, promote healthy development of children, and has a core policy of creating an environment to protect and support health, prevent lifestyle diseases and protect against the development of serious illnesses. Overview (1) Organizational structure Hamamatsu established “Healthy Hamamatsu 21” in March 2003, and has been implementing health promotion policies since then. Based on the final evaluation performed in FY2011, we reevaluated our initiatives up to that point and established the 2nd Hamamatsu Health Promotion Plan “Healthy Hamamatsu 21” in March 2013. In the plan, we are aiming for Healthy City Hamamatsu, a place where each citizen leads an active and meaningful life. Concretely, in conjunction with the city administration, organizations supporting civic health promotion, such as health insurance unions, enterprises and other related organizations, are engaging and driving civic health promotion through citizen collaboration as Healthy Hamamatsu 21 Promoting Cooperative Organizations. Healthy Hamamatsu 21 engages in information exchange and its progress is supervised by the Healthy Hamamatsu 21 Promotional Council, whose members come from the Healthy Hamamatsu 21 Promoting Cooperative Organizations. If we were to think of civic health promotion as a kite from the Hamamatsu Matsuri (Festival), the logo for Healthy Hamamatsu 21 represents that health (a kite) is not something that one person alone improves (raises up), but rather something that is improved (raised up) through the cooperation of many people and groups. (2) Example of major activities,